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Research Title : A study of Thai housemaids English competence working in foreigners’ house using English for communication
Name of researcher : Asst. Professor Dr. Silp Rasri
Name of Institute : Sripatum University
Year of Publication : B.E. 2006
Abstract
The objectives of this research are to study how Thai housemaids working in foreigner’s houses who use English for communication improve their English competence. Researching is based on the learning theory of Direct Method and Communicative Approach
The samplings are 100 Thai housemaids working in the houses of American, British, Australian, New Zealand and some others, who use English for communication in Bangkok Metropolitan areas and urbanities.
The hypotheses of the research are about age, education, and working experience; that is to say, the younger, higher - educated and longer - working experienced should learn English more effectively than the opposites. After having colleted and analyzed data with spss/pcc computer program, the results of the study are as follow:
Qualifications of Housemaids
1. The Housemaids mostly age between 27 – 32 and 50% educated in Matthayom 3.
2. Before working in foreigners’ houses, they thought their English competence is quite fare, especially speaking skills are better than others are.
3. Their listening skills are quite better in medium average after having spent some times working in foreigners’ houses. They quite understand their bosses’ orders and are able to receive telephone calls.
4. Speaking skills are quite poor, specially telling the directions to foreigners.
5. Reading skills are also poor. Anyway, to understand employers’
notes, and orders is in medium average.
6. Thai housemaids writing skills are in the most minimum average because they hardly write anything in their routine work.
How Thai housemaids learn English
1. They mostly learn English unsystematically from their employers such as the boss’s orderings, some necessary vocabulary, and simple sentences; moreover, many of them try to learn by themselves by practicing some interesting words or sentence patterns and gradually improve their English competence.
According to analyzed data, a few housemaids learn English in learning centers.
2. The way through which housemaids learn English is the same as the learning theory of Direct Method and Communicative approach; that is, they learn from the original learning sources by speaking, listening, reading and writing with their bosses until they feel confident and are able to communicate with their bosses.
3. According to analyzed statistical data, the set hypothesis about age, education and working experience about developing English competence of housemaids are not important factors but their intension, curiosity in developing themselves are the most important one.
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